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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."
Mike Tyson
FACT OF THE DAY
Mike Tyson, at the age of 20, was the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title after knocking out Trevor Berbick in the second round.
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— Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
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KU's version of Dancing With the Stars happens tonight at 7 in the Kansas Union Ball Room. Dancers include the student body president, the chancellor's husband, Baby Jay and more! Pick up your free ticket voucher at the SUA ticket office before hand.
What's going on?
TODAY February 24
The Office of Diversity and Equity will host the lecture "At the Margins of Black Freedom Studies: Working-Class Representation and the Blues Idiom" at 3:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union, level four. Clarence Lang, spring 2011 Langston Hughes visiting professor in African & African American Studies will be giving the lecture. The event is free.
FRIDAY
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February 25
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will show as a part of the Campus Movies Series. It will start at 8 p.m.in Woodruff Auditorium Kansas Union, level five. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card, $2 with a valid KUID and $3 for the general public.
SATURDAY
February 26
KU Theatre for Young People will present H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" at 10:30 a.m. in William Inge Memorial Theatre at Murphy Hall. Tickets are $10 for the public, $9 for senior citizens, KU faculty and staff and $5 for KU students.
MONDAY
Stacy Nadeau, an original Dove Evolution model, will talk about true beauty and how it is not dependent upon skin color or size. Nadeau will speak at 7 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium on level five of the Kansas Union.
February 28
SUNDAY
TUESDAY
March
SUNDAY
February 27
Dr. Berghout will perform on the World War II Memorial Campanile's 53 bronze bells from 5-5:30 p.m. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be canceled.
Geographer Lee Schwartz will discuss the importance of geography in the formulation of foreign policy at 7:30 p.m. at the Dole Institute of Politics.
WEDNESDAY
March 2
CAMPUS
The Hall Center for the Humanities will host a workshop to discuss ethical, philisophical and social implications of youth in media. The workshop will be held at 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Hall Center.
LGBT calls for new same-sex restrooms
"It's an issue that potentially affects a lot of people," Genther said. "It's important that we be thinking about the needs of these students and making their campus experience as comfortable as possible."
The University of Kansas Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender resource center has established a new gender-neutral bathroom task force this semester.
Task force members will share their survey findings at the task force's next meeting March 8. The meeting will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
The task force is conducting a survey on the amount of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus as well as single-stalled bathrooms that can be converted into gender-neutral bathrooms. The task force wants to create more campus bathrooms that serve the diversity of students and their needs.
Genther said that more gender-neutral bathrooms would help transgender students, disabled students with a different gendered attendant and parents with different gendered children.
"There are restrooms that can be easily altered with changing the sign on the door," said Diane Genther, LGBT resource center coordinator and task force member.
— Adam Strunk
SCIENCE
Expo celebrates 100 years
BY ANDREA OLSEN aolsen@kansan.com
Science and technology have made great strides in the past century, but some traditions remain the same. This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the Engineering Expo at the University of Kansas, an event dedicated to highlighting the current research and technology from all fields of engineering, mathematics and science.
The first Engineering Expo took place on March 31, 1911, as a holiday reserved for engineering students only. There was a parade of floats designed by each department of the school, beginning at Marvin Hall and ending on Massachusetts Street. Along with the parade, the original Expo included athletic competitions, a large dinner, and a dance at the end of the day for the students and their dates.
In 1922 the School of Engineering decided to open up the event to the whole campus and community. Through the years, the event has evolved into a two-day event on a Friday and Saturday reserved for students from surrounding elementary, junior high and high schools. More than a thousand students from grades K-12 attend each
year, participating in competitions, attending demonstrations, and listening to presentations about the programs and research in the School of Engineering.
As Expo co-chair for the Engineering Student Council, Megan Ketchum has been working all year on researching the history of the Engineering Expo in preparation for this week. Pulling files from the University Archives, Ketchum looked at old traditions from Expo through the years, including the crowning of an Engineering Queen and an old rivalry among the Schools of Engineering and Law that involved parade float vandalism in the 1960s.The old traditions will be highlighted in a timeline spanning Learned and Eaton Halls. The timeline will track not only the Engineering Expo, but the progress of science and technology through the years as well.
To commemorate the100-year anniversary, the Engineering Student Council has scheduled a whole week of events leading up to the traditional Expo this Friday and Saturday. Coinciding with National Engineer's Week, the "E-Week" on this campus is being promoted as a homecoming for the College of Engineering and their
students. Every student organization in the school is involved in Expo, whether it's making presentations on research or helping run the competitions. This year's events are geared at the entire KU community.
"This is a really neat project because it's so multidisciplinary. It involves every type of engineering as well as chemistry." Black said, as well as being a timely experiment in sustainability.
Engineering Expo also involved the architecture, chemistry, mathematics and physics departments, as well as the branches of the armed services in the past. As part of this year's E-Week festivals, all of those departments have been invited to participate again. The Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis is working with the chemistry department to sponsor a biodiesel fuel manufacturing competition for high school students. Roderick Black, Director of Laboratories for the Chemistry Department, said six teams will compete, making and burning the fuel in an engine before testing its quality and efficiency.
"The point of Expo is to open up our doors and show everyone what engineering is about and how our school works," Ketchum, a junior from Ottawa, said. "Our goal is getting people into the building and interested in our work."
Edited by Danielle Packer
BUSINESS
Liquor bill could hurt businesses
A bill allowing grocery and convenience stores to sell alcohol other than 3.2 beer was presented to the Kansas Senate Tuesday.
Kansas is only one of five states with the regulation that only licensed liquor stores can sell anything but cereal malt beverages.
Some local liquor stores are upset about the bill, saying that it may help grocery stores, but it will hurt their businesses.
"A lot of liquor stores will close
if this bill passes and a lot of family businesses that have been in business for years probably won't make it," said Matt Easley, manager of On the Rocks, 1818 Massachusetts St.
If the bill passes, grocery and convenience stores wanting to sell alcohol will either have to wait until 2017 when the state's license cap expires or buy a license from a closing liquor store.
The Senate could vote on the bill as early as Friday.
Lyndsey Mott
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